Bucknell University Press: 205 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World explores the representation of political, economic, military, religious, and juridical power in texts and artifacts from early modern Spain and her American viceroyalties. In addition to analyzing the dynamics of power in written texts, chapters also...
by Rebecca E. Biron
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Blending cultural studies, literary analysis, and political and intellectual history, Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams shows how Elena Garro’s life and work expose the impasses inherent to the concept of Mexican modernity. While Garro is well known for the gossip and conflicts she created...
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders
Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain’s own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and...
by Murray Pittock, Robert Crawford, Leith Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life,...
Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France
From Poetics to Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were inspired by the idea that literature – especially the literary sublime – might offer us the deepest kind...
Barcelona and Madrid
Social Networks of the Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
For hundreds of years, Barcelona and Madrid have shared a deep rivalry. Throughout history, they have competed in practically every aspect of social life, sport, politics, and culture. While competition between cities is commonplace in many nations around the world, in the case of Barcelona and Madrid...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Though his name might not be familiar to many twenty-first century readers, Laurence Whyte (d.1753) is an important missing link in eighteenth-century Ireland’s literary and musical histories. A rural poet who established himself in Dublin as a teacher of mathematics and as an active member (and...
Forth and Back
Translation, Dirty Realism, and the Spanish Novel (1975–1995)
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Forth and Back broadens the scope of Hispanic trans-Atlantic studies by shifting its focus to Spain’s trans-literary exchange with the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Santana analyzes the translation “boom” of U.S. literature that marked literary production in Spain after...
The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater
Representing the Auto Sacramental
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater argues that twentieth-century artists used the Golden Age Eucharist plays called autos sacramentales to reassess the way politics and the arts interact in the Spanish nation’s past and present, and to posit new ideas for future relations...
Brown Romantics
Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and scholars of European Romanticism to acknowledge the extensive international impact of Romantic poetry. Chander demonstrates the importance of Romantic...
Public Intellectuals and Nation Building in the Iberian Peninsula, 1900–1925
The Alchemy of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
This book provides a detailed analysis of the core concepts of national identity articulated by Iberian writers during the period between 1900 and 1925. It is centered on four "pedagogical" essays written in these decades previous to the onset of authoritarian dictatorships in Spain and Portugal,...
The Mask and the Quill
Actress-Writers in Germany from Enlightenment to Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
In the last three decades of the eighteenth century, a small but significant number of German actresses, including Sophie Albrecht (1757-1840), Marianne Ehrmann (1755-1795) and Elise BYrger (1769-1833), began to publish poetry, autobiography, drama and short fiction under their own names. These 'actress-writers'...
Confluence Narratives
Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation-Making in the Americas explores how a collection of contemporary novels calls attention to the impact of ethnicity on national identities in the Americas. These historical narratives portray the cultural encounters—the conflicts and alliances,...
Commonplace Commitments
Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet...